Publications

Political change and course of schizophrenia in East Germany, 1984-1994

S PriebeUnit for Social and Community Psychiatry, St Bartholomew s and The Royal London School of Medicine, East Ham Memorial Hospital, London, UKSoc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 35:255-8. 2000

Specific body image pathology in acute schizophrenia

S PriebeUnit for Social and Community Psychiatry, St Bartholomew s and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary and Westfield College, East Ham Memorial Hospital, University of London, E7 8QR, London, UKPsychiatry Res 101:289-301. 2001

[Effects of a brief couples therapy intervention in coronary rehabilitation. A controlled study]

S PriebeUnit for Social and Community Psychiatry, St Bartholomew s and the Royal London School of Medicine University of London, U KPsychother Psychosom Med Psychol 51:276-80. 2001

The impact of routine outcome measurement on treatment processes in community mental health care: approach and methods of the MECCA study

Do long-term hospitalised patients benefit from discharge into the community?

Stefan PriebeUnit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Barts and the London School of Medicine, West Smithfield, London EC1A 7BESoc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 37:387-92. 2002

Trauma and suicidality in war affected communities

J JankovicUnit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, Dudley, UK Electronic addressEur Psychiatry 28:514-20. 2013

Objective social outcomes index (SIX): a method to summarise objective indicators of social outcomes in mental health care

S PriebeUnit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London, London, UKActa Psychiatr Scand 118:57-63. 2008

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..The extent to which these differences may result in a difference in the use of coercive measures for men and women during the acute phase of the disease has not been studied...

Political change and course of schizophrenia in East Germany, 1984-1994

S PriebeUnit for Social and Community Psychiatry, St Bartholomew s and The Royal London School of Medicine, East Ham Memorial Hospital, London, UKSoc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 35:255-8. 2000

..We tested the hypothesis that the political change occurring in East Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 affected patients with long-term schizophrenia, resulting in more and longer hospitalisations...

Specific body image pathology in acute schizophrenia

S PriebeUnit for Social and Community Psychiatry, St Bartholomew s and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary and Westfield College, East Ham Memorial Hospital, University of London, E7 8QR, London, UKPsychiatry Res 101:289-301. 2001

..Patients with acute paranoid schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder seem to have a specific and consistent disturbance of body size perception, which might indicate a dysfunction of sensory information processing...

[Effects of a brief couples therapy intervention in coronary rehabilitation. A controlled study]

S PriebeUnit for Social and Community Psychiatry, St Bartholomew s and the Royal London School of Medicine University of London, U KPsychother Psychosom Med Psychol 51:276-80. 2001

..Larger studies are required for testing whether the effects of such interventions are restricted to depressive symptoms and subjective appraisals, or whether other outcome criteria such as mortality can also be influenced...

The impact of routine outcome measurement on treatment processes in community mental health care: approach and methods of the MECCA study

..Moreover, the study will hopefully reveal new insights into how therapeutic processes in community mental health care work and how they can be optimised...

Do long-term hospitalised patients benefit from discharge into the community?

Stefan PriebeUnit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Barts and the London School of Medicine, West Smithfield, London EC1A 7BESoc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 37:387-92. 2002

..The study investigated whether long-stay patients would benefit from discharge into the community in Berlin, Germany...

Trauma and suicidality in war affected communities

J JankovicUnit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, Dudley, UK Electronic addressEur Psychiatry 28:514-20. 2013

..The aim was to assess whether experiences of war trauma remain directly associated with suicidality in war affected communities when other risk factors are considered...

Objective social outcomes index (SIX): a method to summarise objective indicators of social outcomes in mental health care

S PriebeUnit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London, London, UKActa Psychiatr Scand 118:57-63. 2008

..The study aimed to develop and test a simple, brief and meaningful index of social outcomes that can be used across a broad range of mental health studies and is potentially obtainable from routine documentation...

R McCabeUnit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Barts and the London School of Medicine, Newham Centre for Mental Health, London E13 8SP, UKEur Psychiatry 18:220-5. 2003

..To investigate the therapeutic relationship and how it is influenced by sociodemographic and clinical factors...

Good communication in psychiatry--a conceptual review

S PriebeQueen Mary University of London, Newham Centre for Mental Health, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Unit for Social and Community Psychiatry, London E13 8SP, UKEur Psychiatry 26:403-7. 2011

..However, there has been little practical attention to training in it, and no specific theory of what constitutes good communication in psychiatry has been developed. This review aims to identify principles that guide good communication...

Treatment completion in psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis

K BarnicotUnit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Queen Mary, University of London, UKActa Psychiatr Scand 123:327-38. 2011

..Hence, unpacking the presuppositions that have informed research on the therapeutic relationship to date may be a useful first step in developing this field...

A comparison of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome attending separate fatigue clinics based in immunology and psychiatry

P D WhiteDepartment of Psychological Medicine, Barts and The London, Queen Mary s School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London, London EC1A 7BE, UKJ R Soc Med 95:440-4. 2002

..The high levels of emotional distress suggest that psychosocial management is as important as physical management in hospital outpatients with chronic fatigue syndrome, irrespective of its aetiology...

Detention of the mentally ill in Europe--a review

Martin ZinklerUnit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Barts and the London School of Medicine, Queen Mary, University of London, London, UKActa Psychiatr Scand 106:3-8. 2002

..Although there has been some research on a nation-wide level, no work has been done to compare mental health legislation in different countries in relation to detention rates and to patients' perception of hospital detention...

..Empowerment has impacted more at an organisational level than on individual care. Innovative research methodologies are needed to expand on the present significant body of research, utilising qualitative and quantitative techniques...

Are day hospitals effective for acutely ill psychiatric patients? A European multicenter randomized controlled trial

..Rehospitalization was assessed over a 9-month follow-up period. Controlling for other predictors, a more positive TR was found to predict fewer hospitalizations in new patients but not in established ones...

A phenomenological account of users' experiences of assertive community treatment

Jay WattsUnit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Bart s and the London School of Medicine, Queen Mary, University of London, East Ham Memorial Hospital, Shrewsbury Road, London E7 8QR, UKBioethics 16:439-54. 2002

..Such an empirical approach to examining psychiatric ethics may ensure that we incorporate the subjectivities of various interested parties in the clinical decision-making process...

Staff and patient perspectives on unmet need and therapeutic alliance in community mental health services

Walid K H FakhouryUnit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Barts and the London School of Medicine, Academic Unit, East Ham Memorial Hospital, Shrewsbury Road, UKSoc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 37:301-15. 2002

..In this paper, we review the conceptual issues related to the provision of supported housing schemes, the characteristics of residents, research methods and outcomes, and the factors influencing the quality of care provided...

Christine WrightDepartment of General Psychiatry, St George s Hospital Medical School and South West London and St George s Mental Health Trust, London, UKBr J Psychiatry 183:132-8. 2003

..Assertive outreach teams have been introduced in the UK, based on the assertive community treatment (ACT) model. It is unclear how models of community care translate from one culture to another or the degree of adaptation that may result...

..Such research approaches should seek to maximise the generalisability of results from high-quality (e.g. randomised controlled) single- or multi-site trials assessing specific models of day hospital care...

Reinstitutionalisation in mental health care: comparison of data on service provision from six European countries

Stefan PriebeUnit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Queen Mary University of London, Newham Centre for Mental Health, London E13 8SPBMJ 330:123-6. 2005

..To establish whether reinstitutionalisation is occurring in mental health care and, if so, with what variations between western European countries...

Goals of new long-stay patients in supported housing: a UK study

Walid K H FakhouryUnit for Social and Community Psychiatry of St Bartholomew s and the Royal London School of Medicine Queen Mary, University of London, Newham Centre for Mental Health, UKInt J Soc Psychiatry 51:45-54. 2005

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Social psychiatry in Germany in the twentieth century: ideas and models

..The review aims to identify the extent and nature of research on mental disorders and their care in immigrant populations in three major European countries with high levels of immigration, i.e. Germany, Italy, United Kingdom (UK)...

[The future of psychiatric care--dreams and nightmares]

Stefan PriebeUnit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Barts and the London School of Medicine, University of London, UKPsychiatr Prax 30:S48-53. 2003

Stefan PriebeUnit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Queen Mary, University of London, UKBr J Psychiatry 187:438-43. 2005

..Assertive outreach has been established to care for'difficult to engage' patients, yet little is known about how patients experience their disengagement with mainstream services and later engagement with outreach teams...

Stefan PriebeUnit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London, London, UKPsychiatr Serv 59:570-3. 2008

..This study aimed to establish whether there has been a trend in Europe toward more institutionalized care since 2002...

Communication and psychosis: it's good to talk, but how?

Rose McCabeBr J Psychiatry 192:404-5. 2008

..It may influence patient outcome indirectly or be therapeutic in its own right. Appropriate conceptual models, evidence on effective interventions and specific training are required to optimise communication in everyday routine practice...

Stefan PriebeUnit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Barts and the London School of Medicine, Queen Mary, University of London, UKPsychiatr Prax 29:420-3. 2002

..This study explores whether and, if so, to what extent direct treatment costs as paid by insurance companies and social welfare in the German health care system can be estimated through a simple Institutionalisation-Index...

..To analyse factors that differentiate patients who attend follow-up assessments versus those who do not, and to identify predictors for drop-out within the context of the European Day Hospital Evaluation Study (EDEN-Study)...

Health care and community-based interventions for war-traumatized people in Croatia: community-based study of service use and mental health

..This paper analyses, in what way psychiatrists considered housing and work as criteria of social integration of mentally ill people and what models of care were suggested in Germany throughout the 20th century...

[German-speaking mental health services research - what and how is reported? An analysis of publishing in Psychiatrische Praxis 1999-2002]

Dirk ClaassenUnit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Barts and the Royal London School of Medicine, University of LondonPsychiatr Prax 30:414-23. 2003

..Therefore, this study investigates what is reported in German language publications on mental health service research...

[Patient characteristics, length of treatment and costs in a model institution of community mental health care]

..The study evaluates, to what extent the institution fulfilled its aim to provide long-term care for severely and chronically ill patients at relatively low costs. It also identified predictors of outcome...

Subjective quality of life and depressive symptoms in women with alcoholism during detoxification treatment

..Additionally, they reported more needs for support and more negative consequences of alcoholism. The findings underline the relevance of quality of life ratings in detoxification treatment and their association with depressive symptoms...

[Trauma and Psyche in German Psychiatry since 1889]

Stefan PriebeUnit for Social and Community Psychiatry, St Bartholomew s and The Royal London School of Medicine, University of London, UKPsychiatr Prax 29:3-9. 2002

..This paper summarises the psychiatric concepts on trauma in Germany since 1889...

Subjective quality of life and posttraumatic stress disorder

Patricia d'ArdenneInstitute of Psychotrauma, Barts and the London School of Medicine, London, UKJ Nerv Ment Dis 193:62-5. 2005

..The high dissatisfaction with several social domains of life should be considered in treatment, and depressive and anxiety symptoms might be targeted to improve SQOL...

Social exclusion and mental health: conceptual and methodological review

Craig MorganHealth Service and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UKBr J Psychiatry 191:477-83. 2007

..The concept of social exclusion is now widely used in discussions about the nature of disadvantage, and there are ongoing initiatives to promote social inclusion among those with mental health problems...

Professional-patient communication in the treatment of mental illness: a review

Imren HassanUnit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Barts and the London School of Medicine, University of London, London, UKCommun Med 4:141-52. 2007

..Finally, methodological advances in linking communication processes with treatment outcomes in large-scale observational studies and trials are a challenge for research on medical communication...

..The aim of this study was to explore job satisfaction, professional role and burnout among community mental health staff in Austria...

Subjective evaluation: is there more than one criterion?

Walid K H FakhouryBart s and the London School of Medicine, Queen Mary, University of London, UKSchizophr Bull 28:319-27. 2002

..Therefore, future research needs to focus on how the general factor can be assessed more directly and to identify how the specific variance of different criteria independent of that factor can be maximized...

..This is the first randomized controlled trial specifically designed to test the effectiveness of manualized BPT on negative symptoms in chronic schizophrenia...

Assessing explanatory models for common mental disorders

Kamaldeep BhuiCentre for Psychiatry, Barts and the London School of Medicine, Queen Mary University of LondonJ Clin Psychiatry 67:964-71. 2006

..for mental distress? (2) Are perceived causes of mental distress actually related to treatment preferences? (3) Are EMs influenced uniquely by ethnic group, or are they more closely associated with the presence of common mental disorders?..

..Various subjective and objective criteria are used to assess outcome in bipolar disorder. In this study, we explored to what extent they reflect distinct categories and whether underlying dimensions can be identified...

Who seeks treatment after a traumatic event and who does not? A review of findings on mental health service utilization

Jelena Jankovic GavrilovicUnit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Barts and the London School of Medicine, Queen Mary, University of London, United KingdomJ Trauma Stress 18:595-605. 2005

..The methodological quality of research should be improved to establish whether the inconsistency of findings reflects methodological artefacts or true differences between different samples and contexts...

A new scale to assess the therapeutic relationship in community mental health care: STAR

Rebecca McGuire-SnieckusUnit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Barts and the London School of Medicine, Queen Mary, University of London, UKPsychol Med 37:85-95. 2007

..This study aimed to develop a measure of the TR with clinician and patient versions using psychometric principles for test construction...

Assessing morale in community mental health professionals: a pooled analysis of data from four European countries

Ulrich ReininghausUnit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Queen Mary, University of London, London, UKSoc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 42:237-43. 2007

..The aims of the present study were to assess the extent to which levels of morale are sensitive to differences between professional groups and health care systems, and identify factors influencing morale across groups and settings...

Treatment outcomes and perception of social acknowledgment in war veterans: follow-up study